University of Puerto Rico Law School

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The University of Puerto Rico Law School is accredited by the American Bar Association and the most prestigious law school on the island. Located within the University of Puerto Rico's main campus in Rio Piedras, its graduates include important and prominent figures of Puerto Rico. Among them are former governors Rafael Hernández Colón and Carlos Romero Barcelo and current governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá.

Former gubernatorial candidates Ruben Berrios and Fernando Martin are among the law school's prominent lecturers.

Other professors are Glenda Labadie-Jackson, José Julián Álvarez González, Michel Godreau Robles, Érika Fontánez Torres, Ernesto Chiesa Aponte, Olga Resumil Ramírez, Félix Cifredo Cancel, Ivette Ramos Buonomo, Evaluz Cotto Quijano, Luis Muñiz Argüelles, Ana Matanzo Vicéns, Guillermo Figueroa Prieto, Luis González Correa, Carlos Díaz Olivo, Carmelo Delgado Cintrón, Enid Martínez Moya, Demetrio Fernández, Carlos Concepción Castro and Roberto Aponte Toro, actual Dean.

Visiting speakers have included United States Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Professor Lawrence Tribe of Harvard Law School, and Owen Fiss of Yale Law School.

The law school provides a unique venue for the study of the civil law tradition, its complex interaction with common law and U.S. federal law, and the controversial application of the U.S. Constitution to Puerto Rico's special political status.

[edit] Tony's Place

Tony's Place is named after Antonio Garcia Padilla, former Dean of the law school and current President of the University of Puerto Rico. It is a casual area in where the students come and go to relax between classes.